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Holles Street (The Rocky Road To Dublin)

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Through the air,         Everywhere, the rain is falling;         Brawling on house and tree:         On every place that you can see         The rain drops go;         The roofs are wet, the walls, the ground below.         Midnight has come;         Now all the people stretch them blind and dumb         Each in a bed         Save I, who sit and listen overhead         Unto the rain         Splashing upon the roof and window-pane.         Midnight! and I         Can get no sleep, nor can the sky.

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